Paia Contemporary Gallery

David Ivan Clark

Original Artwork

About The Artist
In addition to his many solo and group exhibitions across the US, David Ivan Clark’s work has been chosen by curators of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum, San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art and the Denver Art Museum. His work is held in over four hundred private, public and corporate collections throughout the United States and Canada.

Artist Statement

“As I paint, I combine references to nature with reference to industry. Screws may frame a vast sky. Paint may be pitted and scoured as if the depicted terrain has issued from dire industrial processes. Suggesting both Arcadian idyll and post-apocalyptic barren, these paintings dwell, as I am forced to myself, in limbo, yearning for one yet unable to deny the other. Finally, I juxtapose nature and industry with man himself. By finishing the paintings with a glossy coat, I provide viewers with images, not just of sanctuary or of ruin, but also with images of themselves. Entering this limbo through their own reflections, they may engage it on their own terms.” -David Ivan Clark

Awards
Jurors Recommendation, Pro Arts Juried Annual
Juror: Larry Rinder, Curator of Contemporary Art,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Select Collections
Actos Capital, LLC, New York, NY
Risk Management Solutions Corporation, Newark, CA
Schell, Mitchell and Cooley, Dallas, TX
Peggy Galeb, New York, NY
Doug Chadwick & Randy Westphal, Laguna Beach, CA
Patricia McHugh, Long Grove, IL
James Horne, Brooklyn, NY
Dr. Steven Ball, Cleveland, OH
Allison Thacker, Woodside, CA
Charles and Janet Birenbaum, San Francisco, CA
Thomas Power III, Green Oaks, IL
Joseph Grant, Ojai, CA
Paul Gamble, Bethesda, MD
Marc & Judy Chamlin, Scarsdale, NY
Joseph and Kirsten Rojas, Las Vegas, NV
Jess Gardner, Lawrenceville, GA
Mary Sprague, Los Altos, CA
Joe Hoefferle & Sabrina Witherby, Essex Junction, VT
Karen Greiner, Austin, TX
Shana McBurney, San Francisco, CA
William and Melissa Woodard, Charleston, SC
Geoff Chase, San Diego, CA
Rex Blake, Marine on St Croix, MN
Christopher Ciano, Sherman Oaks, CA
Ron Sturzenegger, Hillsborough, CA
Merilyn E. Konnerth, New York, NY
Richard Sigal, New York, NY
Artis Ann Montague, Woodside, CA
Anne Carr, Darien, CT
Piero Spadaro, San Francisco, CA
Catherine Lee, Condon, OR
Michael Barkin, Denver, CO
Jesse Lafortune, Bodden Town, Grand Caymen Island
Roxanne Hicklin, Cary, NC
Renee Balsley, Naples, FL
Daniel Moyer, Denver, CO
Karen Braun, Bloomfield, MI

Select Exhibitions
2012 The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO
2011 “Non-Traditional Landscapes” Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA.
2010 Transformer Gallery 7th Annual Benefit Auction. Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, DC
2010 Susan Calloway Fine Arts. 1643 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Washington DC.
2010 Paia Contemporary Gallery, Paia, HI
2010 Aaron Gallery, Washington, DC.
2009 Triton Museum Satellite Gallery, Santa Clara, CA.
2009 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artist’s Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2009 “Metaphysical Abstraction”, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA.
2008 The Sky is Falling, Spur Projects, Portola Valley, CA
2008 Then and Now, Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Solo: Nowhere Remains, Lobby Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2007 Solo: Gathering Void, Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Benefit Auction, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
2007 Solitaire, Hang Art, San Francisco, CA
2006 High and Outside, Spur Projects, Portola Valley, CA
2006 Virus, Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA
2006 Horizon, Hang Art, San Francisco, CA
2005 Gallery Artists, Modern 1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Other Skies, Solo Exhibition, Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Ink and Clay 30, Kellog University Art Gallery, Cal Poly, Pomona, CA
2004 No Place, Solo Exhibition, Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Juror, Hollis Goodall, Associate Curator, Japanese Art, LA County Museum of Art
2003 Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 I Wolk Galleries, St. Helena, CA
2003 Drawings published: River City, The Literary Journal, University of Memphis, TN
2002 Oakland Sesquicentennial Celebration, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
2001 Absence and Otherness, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Matrix International Exhibit, Matrix Arts, Sacramento, CA
2000 Pro Arts Juried Annual, Oakland, Ca
2000 Juror: Larry Rinder, Curator of Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum
2000 of American Art, New York, NY
2000 What is Drawing Now? National Exhibition, Weber State University, Ogden, UT
2000 Juror: Jane Fudge, Curator, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2000 California Small Works, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA.
2000 Juror: Carrie Lederer, New Bedford Art Center, Walnut Creek, CA
2000 Spanning the Bay, Center for Visual Arts, Oakland CA.
2000 Juror: Carlos Loarca, Somar Gallery, San Francisco, CA